News of the Day No 44

Meeting room, presidium of the session of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. Nikita Khrushchev on the presidium of the session. Speakers: A. Popov, N. N. Organov, E. Krestyaninov. Receiving Nikita Khrushchev, a delegation of Cuban journalists headed by Carlos Franchi. Present: chief editors of the newspapers "Pravda" and "Izvestia": PA Satyukov and AI Adzhubey. The city of Norilsk. The streets of the town; blowing a blizzard. Workers go to work in the Norilsk mine, blow up the rock of the mine. The excavator loads the rock into wagons. A train is going by. Italian Ambassador to the USSR Luca Pietromarchi presents awards of the International Film Club in Rome for the Soviet feature film "Ballad of a Soldier". The Golden Plank of David Donotello is awarded to the director of the film G. Chukhrai; Santa Vincent Gold Cup - starring actor Vladimir Ivashov. Harvesting corn in the fields of the Gorky state farm in the Stavropol Territory. Harvesters are working. The corn is loaded onto cars. The last test voyage of the new motor ship "Moldavia", built by the Leningrad shipyard named after Zhdanov. The premises of the ship: deck, salon, cabins. All-Union competition of track and field athletes in Kiev in the race for 10 thousand meters. At a distance, Peter Bolotnikov. The winner of the competition P. Bolotnikov, who set a new world record. The collection of paintings, rare books and manuscripts belonging to the professor, scientist IM Sarkizov-Serazini: portraits of KS Stanislavsky, M. Ermolova with autographs; paintings: "The Village" by artist A. Savrasov, "Politics" by K. Makovsky, "Girl with Folded Hands" by A. Arkhipov. Collector I. M. Sarkizov - Serazini. Moscow city. A concert of rural amateur performances of the Russian Federation. Performers: dance ensemble of the Chekmagushevsky House of Culture from Bashkiria; sings the Penza Russian Folk Choir. The concert is attended by: the leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet government.

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